The single-longitudinal-mode operation of a ridge waveguide laser based on two-dimensional photonic crystals

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/5/054205

Abstract An electrically driven, single-longitudinal-mode GaAs based photonic crystal (PC) ridge waveguide (RWG) laser emitting at around 850 nm is demonstrated. The single-longitudinal-mode lasing characteristic with a single wavelength is achieved by introducing the PC to the RWG laser. The triangle PC is etched on both sides of the ridge by photolithography and inductive coupled plasma (ICP) etching. The lasing spectra of the RWG lasers with and without the PC are studied, and the result shows that the PC purifies the longitudinal mode. The power/facet and current-voltage characteristics have also been studied and compared.

Keywords: ridge waveguide laser photonic crystals single-longitudinal mode effective index guided mode

Received: 21 September 2012
Revised: 26 October 2012
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PACS:	42.55.Px	(Semiconductor lasers; laser diodes)
	42.62.Fi	(Laser spectroscopy)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 91121019 and 61275045).

Corresponding Authors: Xu Xing-Sheng
E-mail: xsxu@semi.ac.cn

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Wang Hua-Yong (王华勇), Xu Xing-Sheng (许兴胜) The single-longitudinal-mode operation of a ridge waveguide laser based on two-dimensional photonic crystals 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 054205

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